a municipal park district recreation center with two full-size basketball courts
How a Park District Sports Arena Cut Daily Court Cleaning From Six Hours to Three
A municipal recreation center with twin basketball courts documented cutting daily floor scrubbing from 4-6 hours to 2-3 hours using mapped autonomous routes and split shifts.
- 2-3 hrs
- Daily scrub time
- 4-6 hrs
- Prior baseline
- 4
- Mapped routes
- 35 min
- Per section
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Twin courts and a full day of scrubbing
The recreation center houses two full-size basketball courts that see steady league play, open gym, and community events. Maintenance staff reported spending four to six hours each day on floor scrubbing alone.
Labor was tight, and leadership did not want automation to replace people. They needed a way to finish hard floors faster while staff handled dust mopping, restrooms, and setup work.
Without a repeatable scrub plan, overtime crept into evenings and left less time for detail cleaning before the next game.
- Two full-size courts in one arena wing
- Four to six hours of manual scrubbing per day before automation
- Small crew balancing events, dust mopping, and restrooms
Four autonomous routes and split shifts
Facilities leaders divided the arena into four cleaning routes for an autonomous floor scrubber added in late 2022. Staff dust mopped ahead of the machine while it scrubbed each section.
The unit ran multiple times per day, including a midday charge while crews were at lunch, then finished the last section in the afternoon.
Leadership framed the robot as daily support for existing staff, not a headcount cut, and tracked time freed for other maintenance tasks.
- Map four court zones with clear ingress and egress
- Dust mop while the scrubber follows each mapped route
- Midday charging to cover all four sections on one deployment cycle
Documented time cut on game-ready floors
Maintenance reported that arena floor cleaning that used to take four to six hours now takes two to three hours, cutting time in half or better.
Three sections often finished in about thirty-five minutes each on a single charge, with the final section completed after a midday top-up.
Staff used the reclaimed hours for other building tasks instead of pushing detail work past closing.
What US rec centers can take from the pilot
This is not a Service Robot Co. deployment. It is a published municipal recreation example of autonomous floor scrubber rental logic applied to high-traffic sports flooring.
Service Robot Co. helps US park districts and private arenas compare scrubbers, set up month to month leases with maintenance included, map courts during off hours, and service units nationwide.
If your calendars are packed with leagues and rentals, measured hours returned on the court floor are the metric that justifies a pilot before the next season.
